At least amongst previous viruses you could DOWNLOAD...

Pros: 1) I detected viruses early so they didn't damage Windows.

2) An attractive appearance.

Cons: Viruses & spyware. The spyware, imesh bar, that installs with the product (ridiculous enough) can be uninstalled separately but this is not the end of your problem as the installation leaves traces of viruses (I found 3 directly caused by imesh) in your system. Using version 5 I felt somewhat consolled by the fact that you could download a huge range of files elsewhere unavailable at amazing speeds, but in version 6 you can't even download things. Previously, imesh was infected remotely merited software, and now it is just infected, dysfunctional software and in my opinion it is a joke that such a spyware vigilant site can let this program be available on it's download pages.

Posted: 31-Oct-2005 06:19:33 AM

Still my favourite P2P

Pros: Limewire returns search results very fast and has excellent download speeds.

Your average to well known files get a good amount of sources very quickly upon your search and it does come up with a few rare files too if you have some patience with the search.

The downloads themselves are at brilliant speeds, and I think the latest version of limewire has somehow allowed for increased speed as I am noticing files that would previously have gone at 20kb/s on my connection are reaching up to 100kb/s since I installed the latest version.

The interface is nice with user skinning options too.

Start up time has definitely improved and memory hogging is a lot less severe than in earlier releases.

It is not bundled with viruses or adware upon install (but please note my cons for where these things could come up in your use of the client).

Limewire is still a solid and fast P2P client which improves version to version.

Cons: Despite limewire's clean install, there are still advertising & virus files from the network returned in every search, so I would advise all users to be very careful with downloads.

The 'sponsered results' are clearly labelled so easy to notice as ads, but some virus files are less obvious and can only really be noted by their file size.

Mostly the false files are under 1mb in size and the most common ones tend to be 134kb and 800kb.

Just watch out for these naughty files on the network as it could ruin your limewire experience.

Posted: 05-Feb-2006 11:05:09 AM

Couldn't get past installation

Cons: The installation was seemingly succesful but upon starting the program I get persistent error messages and I cannot get further than these. I tried to troubleshoot in every possible way but it's just not happening. Wandering if there are any known bugs in this version, and so on, cos it's a mystery to me...

Posted: 01-Oct-2005 08:10:06 AM